Summarize Key Ideas

From a detailed description of a school's annual sports day, what is the main idea?

• The importance of sports in education.

• The description of each game played during the sports day.

• The school's preparation for the sports day.

• The benefits of physical activity highlighted through various events.

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DOK Level 2: Skill/Concept

Identify the main idea in the following sentence: "Pollution harms the environment, affecting air, water, and land, leading to health problems for humans and animals."

• Pollution affects air, water, and land.

• Pollution leads to health problems.

• Pollution harms the environment and health.

• Humans and animals are affected by pollution.

You should write your summary

• in your own words with complete sentences

• in a secret language that you make up

• in one draft without revising

• in fragments without punctuation

When summarizing a story you must include...

• Everything that happened

• The most significant information

• An Inference

• My background knowledge

Summaries help me...

• understand what I'm reading

• write about what I read

• include the key points of a text

• all of the above

When writing a summary for a INFORMATIONAL text, what is a good thing to consider?

• characters

• solution

• details and facts

• conflict

How long should a summary be?

• a full page

• half of a page

• one sentence

• 3-5 sentences

When writing a summary for a LITERARY text, what is a good thing to consider?

• text features

• story elements

• topic

• details

To restate in a concise way.

• main ideas

• defining

• admire

• summarize

Information in a text that support the main ideas

• key details

• summarize

• opinion

• define